Sujet : Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
De : ram (at) *nospam* zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Groupes : comp.unix.shell comp.unix.programmer comp.lang.miscDate : 29. Mar 2024, 21:07:29
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Stefan Ram
Message-ID : <programming-20240329210532@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
References : 1 2
Johanne Fairchild <
jfairchild@tudado.org> wrote or quoted:
A scripting language is a programming language made for a hypothetical
machine, not too different from a programming language made for a real
machine, one made of hardware.
C is clearly a programming language, yet its specification
says, "The semantic descriptions in this document describe
the behavior of an abstract machine". And you cannot buy
this abstract C machine as a piece of hardware anywhere!